Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

January 2004 - Posts

Why the VS Debugger does not stop on first chance Access Violations (by default)

Today we got some alpha feedback about “Whidbey” regarding the debuggers default choice of exception handling for certain win32 exceptions, specifically access violation. The customer had an access violation in some native code, which ended
Posted by andypennell | 13 Comments
Filed under:

Everything isnt always Windows Fault

Everyone loves to blame Windows for, well, just about everything that goes wrong with their PC. Although I have seven PCs in my office and six in my home, I actually have few problems with Windows and seldom blame my Microsoft co-workers for my PC troubles.
Posted by andypennell | 1 Comments
Filed under:

Disabling Auto Expansions in the VS 2003 C++ debugger

This is an undocumented feature. It is not supported by Microsoft. It may change or cease to exist in future versions. Do not rely on this information. It is provided for your convenience only. If it doesnt work, please do not complain or call Microsoft
Posted by andypennell | 5 Comments
Filed under:

How much RAM do Visual Studio developers actually have?

We have a continual battle with Marketing about how much RAM we should have on our Performance Test machines, so I would love some feedback from Visual Studio developers. Our current perf machines are Windows 2000 / 500MHz / 128M of RAM. It is my opinion
Posted by andypennell | 55 Comments

Introduction

My name is Andy Pennell, I am a dev lead in C#. I own the debugger and along with my team of eight developers we are responsible for the Visual Studio debugger as used by C++, C#, VB, Script and SQL. Outside of work I love messing with audio/video stuff
Posted by andypennell | 3 Comments
Filed under:
 
Page view tracker